Monthly Archives: October, 2011

Dear Reader: One of the questions I posed a lot in my blog before I left for China was: why was the central theme in so much of the Chinese literature I was reading “oppression”? From having visited before, I did not get the sense that people were walking around feeling deeply frustrated and oppressed. …

Dear Reader: It has been awhile since I last wrote here. As you may have figured, I was in China for some time. I had been wondering before I left whether I would be able to access my blog. I’d been able to learn that WordPress was blocked by the Chinese government, but also that …